DigitalReading

Digital Reading, Digital Teacher
- Sara Kajder

Bringing the Outside In
Promise Into Practice

Time - 21st Century Students - kids aren't able to leverage the tools for learning
"In School & Out of School Tools"

• Old things with new tools
• New things with old tools
• New things with new tools

Frontline special - "online kids"
Understanding from students:

• As long as the Internet is in the classroom, you are no longer the smartest person
• It is not about how, but rather why and when to blog/podcasts
• Kids aren't blank slates
• We don't know the games they play

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Questions to ask:

• What are the unique capacities and limits of the tool?
• How does this tool allow us to do something better?

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Instructional Challenge: Book Talks

• flick - using a plugin to create movie posters
• movie maker - create a book trailer
  • entrance tickets to lab: storyboard and script
  • assessment is of a layered composition - holistic evaluation and reflective piece
  • transitions shoe do narrative work

Instructional Challenge: Think Alouds

• visual/virtual think alouds
• iMovie timeline as the visual: students practicing recitation, mental images, read alouds
• using short passages
  • mental movie images
  • read alouds
  • think aloud inserts

Instructional Challenge: Literature Circle Discussions

• voice recorders w/ iPods
• Students are required to edit files with Audacity to 2-3 minutes of robust questions
• metacognitive task - podcasting final product
  • Radio Willow Web
    • requires students to synthesize student learning - one grade per week
    • create a knowledge artifact
    • "Work that kids' knowledge can do"
  • Skype Interview
    • move us with this information
    • contacts found via globalschoo.net and classroom 2.0

Instructional Challenge: Cliffs Notes

• Kids are using Spark Notes
• Flat Classroom Project 07
  • creating their own wiki for book notes - students US/Bangladesh

Digital Storytelling early in the year
introduce yourself as a reader
bio as a reader